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From: "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters@rational.com>
To: "'DJ Delorie'" <dj@delorie.com>
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: /etc/profile in BASH
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:10:08 -0700
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Example?  Why would it be?  And if it is, wouldn't BASH use the new value to
determine where to get ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc?  (I should test that,
but...)

Point is that doing this in /etc/profile subverts --noprofile and --norc
options in BASH.

-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@delorie.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:04 PM
To: dmasters@Rational.Com
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: /etc/profile in BASH


> As described in the BASH MAN page, it would seem that BASH does this
already
> after reading /etc/profile.  Is this required because of the
implementation
> of Cygwin on MS-Windows?

It's in case $HOME is set or changed by /etc/profile.

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